Thursday, February 3, 2011

Snow Day

I took that picture on Wednesday when Charles and I walked down the lane to check the mail. Charles and the kids have not had school since Monday (and I don't think it looks too good for tomorrow.) It's not often that I get a snow day, but thanks to this winter storm we did get one day with all four of us at home. The snow itself isn't too problematic, but the thick layer of sleet/ice on top of that snow meant that I got to devote Wednesday to my kitchen. It was a glorious day. : )

I went from this:

to this:

And I tacked up this little section as well:

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I owe Mother Nature ﻿a thank you. My weekends have been monopolized lately by life-other-than-the-house and that's a trend that is going to continue well into February, so I was very grateful to have an entire day to putter about putting up more beadboard. These were the last two sections of beadboard in the north end of the room. I've got a fair amount of painting ahead of me and then it will be on to the kitchen cupboards/crown molding portion of this project.

"When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let is be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.'" ~John Ruskin (1819-1900)